José Lara just wanted a job. A company working in the natural gas fields needed a man to power wash wastewater tanks. Clean off the debris. Make them shining again. And so José Lara became a power washer for the Rain for Rent Co. “The chemicals, the smell was so bad. Once I got ...

Originally published at Wrong Kind of Green.   "This was nothing less than a colonisation of the sky. $10 billion is not enough to buy us coffins." - Lumumba Di-Aping On December 11, 2009 one of the most important briefings in the history of United Nations Conference of the Parties transpired (COP15) which ...

Originally posted at GV Consulting. Arctic sea ice extent during the first two weeks of August continued to track below 2007 record low daily ice extents. As of August 13, ice extent was already among the four lowest summer minimum extents in the satellite record, with about five weeks still remaining ...

The Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz wrote of action in war that it must “be planned in a mere twilight, which - like the effect of a fog or moonlight - gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.” As I attempted to research and write an article that ...

Medical studies funded by drug companies have only lately "discovered" the onset of cancer, diabetes and autism is "not caused" by agents outside the body, but brought on by your own susceptible, read "defective' DNA. They're a passive creation with no visible perpetration rather like saying 93,000 women were raped in 2005 in the USA. Of course without mentioning the 93,000 men and their evil intentions who actually did the ...

Feb 1, 2012: SumOfUs posts a popular image used by media outlets today to reflect the worker conditions at Chinese "sweatshops." "Ethical capitalism" is a fantasy embraced and fetishized by the liberal/professional left.     New Delusion for 2012: SumOfUs ...Like all good Imperialists, the Philanthropoids set themselves the task of creating and training an international ...

A recent article was posted to an International Climate Justice Now! listserv written by "agent" Jamie Henn of 350.org/1Sky/Tar Sands Action. The 16 January 2012 article titled "Grassroots Strategy Is Key to Winning Keystone XL Fight" gave the impression that the mainstream green groups were a magnificent force to be ...

For a few hours on the afternoon of Nov. 1, the people of southern California were scared by initial reports of an alert at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. An “alert” is the second of four warning levels. Workers first detected an ammonia leak in a water purification system about ...

It’s no secret that diplomatic relations between a poor country and a hegemonic world power are frequently a montage. They are a pantomime written and directed by the stronger, showing it as a hero, and the weaker as a victim rescued from poverty, chaos, or ungovernability. Above all, it’s a ...

Part III of an investigative report on Tar Sands Action and the Paralysis of a Movement "The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their ...